🧵1/ #Rights My final act as @TheGreenParty MEP for London was to chair a meeting of #EU leaders to take a firm line over Modi's populist, anti-democratic Citizen Amendment Act, set up to disenfranchise over 250 million minority groups in India. https://www.scottainsliemep.org.uk/news/scott-chairs-cross-party-resolution-defend-rights-minorities-india-prime-minister-modis
RT @hrw: In India, the BJP-led government continued its systematic discrimination and stigmatiz…
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🧵2/ #Rights My maiden speech in the European Parliament warned of the populist assaults on democracies everywhere and how we must defend our rights. https://youtu.be/TDQQPLJ06vo
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/GreenPartyScott/status/1615054143558717454
🧵4/ "We can't trust this British government to protect Citizen's Rights". It used and abused the #WindrushGeneration, turned its back on #EU citizens https://youtu.be/nCHlLl2GjY4
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🧵4/ #Rights they have targeted the estimated 2 million people who may not have voter ID, (many perhaps cannot afford a passport/driving license), as I warned about in December 2019. https://youtu.be/tc7EShqNh30 group-by-group they pick off electors who will not vote for them
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/GreenPartyScott/status/1615054150156357657
🧵5/ And then there are the numerous assaults on our #Rights to protest and peaceful assembly. Here I talk about the overreach of police powers in clearing Trafalgar Square. https://youtu.be/klkljP0qUlI
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/GreenPartyScott/status/1615054152123486232
🧵3/ #Rights My speech on how the UK government failed to act to ensure improvements were made to protect and update our electoral system in the UK. https://youtu.be/scvYoEjljz0
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